TEN QUESTIONS FOR PIERCE O’DONNELL: Orlando Squeeze

1) Are the men described in Orlando Museum of Art press reports as your clients “William Force” and “Lee Mangin” in fact convicted felons Michael William Force and John Leo Mangan III?

2) Why did they use fictitious names for the Orlando Museum transaction?

3) Are they still your clients?

4) Did you make Aaron De Groft, Director of the Orlando Museum of Art, aware of Force and Mangan’s true identities?

5) If so, what documentation did you provide?

6) If not, why not?

7) Was the “Basquiat” exhibit in Orlando really predicated on the display of your unauthenticated Pollock work, “The Comstock Pollock, 1950 (Pink Spring)”?

8) Will you provide independently-documented proof of the date/location of the storage unit auction company that sold the items from Mumford’s storage unit?

9) What was the scope of your representation of Lumsden (Lu) Quan in May 2018 in a civil dispute regarding the purported Basquiat painting, “Helicopter”?

10) After buying the paintings, “Mangin said he and Force tracked down the screenwriter, who told them over lunch how he had bought the Basquiats in 1982 as an investment on the recommendation of a friend.”

When did they lunch with Mumford, where did they eat, and did they split the check?